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Committee Against Political Repression

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Committee Against Political Repression seeks to bring local peace, solidarity, labor and human rights activists together against the recent wave of FBI raids and harassment of fellow peace and solidarity activists across the country.

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Comment by Joe Balkis on April 14, 2013 at 11:51
Committee to Stop FBI Repression (stopfbi.net)
Comment by Joe Balkis on March 15, 2013 at 21:44

We again call on all activists, especially those in the U.S., to call President Obama and the State Department on Friday, March 15th, from 8 AM to 4 PM CST, to take action.

1) Call President Obama at 202-456-1111
2) Call US Secretary of State John Kerry at 202-647-4000

(pick option 4 for the operator and ask to leave a message for Kerry)

3) Call the Office of Near East Affairs at 202-647-7209

(you will get transferred to Marguerite Pickett to leave a message)
Sample message: “My name is _____ from __________ and I demand that the US administration intervene for the immediate release of Samer Issawi, Ayman Sharawna, the other hunger strikers, and all the Palestinian administrative detainees and political prisoners held by Israel."

Comment by Joe Balkis on March 12, 2013 at 3:20

Protest Assistant U.S. Attorney Barry Jonas
at DePaul Law School

WHEN:

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013, at 11 AM

WHERE:
DePaul University College of Law
25 E Jackson
Blvd
Chicago, IL 60604

Jonas
is the notorious anti-Palestinian ideologue who prosecuted the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) case, an egregious example of
prosecutorial misconduct--including the use of guilt by association and
collective punishment, and most notably, denying
the defendants their constitutional right to confront witnesses against
them, specifically an Israeli intelligence officer who refused to release
his identity, agreeing only to testify under a pseudonym--that led to the convictions of 5 leaders of HLF, each now serving decades in prison. 

Comment by Joe Balkis on March 9, 2013 at 5:37

CSFR Updates and News, March 2013

Comment by Joe Balkis on January 23, 2013 at 7:05

Protest former US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald at meeting of University of Illinois Board of Trustees

Thursday, January 24th

3:30 pm 828 S. Wolcott,  

UIC Student Center West

Demand an End to Investigation of Anti-War Activists

Patrick Fitzgerald has been appointed to be a member of the UI Board of Trustees.  His first meeting will be this week on the UIC campus.  Activists who have been the targets of raids and grand jury subpoenas are calling for a protest.

Fitzgerald has played a leading role in the U.S. government's undermining of civil liberties during the so called “War on Terror.” He convened a grand jury in 2009 under the pretext of investigating “material support for foreign terrorist organizations,” and together with the FBI, sent undercover officers to infiltrate and spy on anti-war groups.  The prosecutor in his former office, Barry Jonas, continues the investigation to this day, despite an outpouring of support for the targeted activists from the Arab and Muslim communities, faith leaders, labor unions, and a dozen members of Congress.

Fitzgerald also prosecuted Palestinians Muhammad Salah, who has U.S. citizenship, and Abdelhaleem Ashqar.  Fitzgerald’s office presented evidence extracted from Salah through torture in an Israeli prison, and allowed the Israeli torturers to testify without allowing the defense to hear the testimony, the infamous "secret evidence."  After Ashqar and Salah were acquitted of the major terrorism-related charges, Ashqar was indicted, convicted, and sentenced to over 11 years in prison for invoking his constitutional right not to testify to a grand jury--clearly a punitive response by Fitzgerald after his very public loss in the case.

In addition, Jonas was the primary investigator in the case of the Holy Land Five, in which leaders of a Palestinian Muslim charity were convicted of providing material aid to terrorism. They were sentenced to many decades in prison, based on alleged donations to the same Gaza-based charities that the U.S. government donated to, and based on the secret testimony of an agent of the Israeli state.

Comment by Joe Balkis on January 20, 2013 at 14:01
Committee to Stop FBI Repression (stopfbi.net)

National Call In Day--Thursday, January 24

Call Assistant US Attorney Barry Jonas at 312-353-5300 x 68027

Tell Barry Jonas...

"We demand that:

1. Barry Jonas drop the “ongoing investigation” against 23 anti-war and international solidarity activists in the Midwest.
2. Barry Jonas return the personal belongings of Hatem Abudayyeh, a Palestinian-American activist in Chicago.
3. The FBI and other government agencies stop the political repression campaigns against Arab-Americans and Muslims, movements like Occupy Wall Street, and the Northwest grand jury resisters--currently in solitary confinement. "
Comment by Joe Balkis on January 18, 2013 at 23:03

Call-in against U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald at Chicago’s John Marshall Law School commencement Fitzgerald is a Bully - End the Grand Jury Investigation of Anti-War Activists!

Call TODAY: Friday, January 18 Call Chicago’s John Marshall Law School's Dean John Corkery 312-987-2352 Tell him not to ‘honor’ Pat Fitzgerald!

If you are in the Chicago area Protest: Sunday, January 20 3:00 pm Hyatt Regency Hotel 151 East Wacker Drive Chicago, Illinois

Comment by Joe Balkis on January 16, 2013 at 22:29

Anti-war and international solidarity activists protest US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald at John Marshall Law School commencement

Sunday, January 20 3:00 pm


Hyatt Regency Hotel 151 East Wacker Drive


Fitzgerald is a Bully - End the Grand Jury Investigation of Anti-War Activists

Patrick Fitzgerald will be the commencement speaker at John Marshall Law School's graduation and will receive an honorary degree.  Praise from the college for his "distinguished" career ignores the underside of his years in Chicago:  a history of bullying and witch hunts.   In fact, Fitzgerald has played a leading role in the U.S. government's undermining of civil liberties during the so called “War on Terror.”
Marshall’s press release about Fitzgerald's “high-profile investigations and prosecutions” fails to mention the 23 anti-war and international solidarity activists who in 2010 were subjected to dawn raids of their homes by over 70 armed agents.  Fitzgerald convened a grand jury in 2009 under the pretext of investigating “material support for foreign terrorist organizations,” and together with the FBI, sent undercover officers to infiltrate and spy on the anti-war groups.  The prosecutor in his former office, Barry Jonas, continues the investigation to this day, despite an outpouring of support for the activists from faith leaders, labor unions, and a dozen members of Congress.
The Marshall administration also ignores Fitzgerald’s prosecution of Abdelhaleem Ashqar and Palestinian American Muhammad Salah, in which Fitzgerald’s office presented evidence extracted from Salah through torture in an Israeli prison.
With the case of Aaron Swartz, the net activist who committed suicide last week under intimidation by Boston’s US Attorney Carmen Ortiz, there is growing awareness of this bullying by prosecutors.
In Illinois, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez has been exposed for bullying tactics in the prosecution of the NATO 5, young men entrapped by undercover cops before the NATO protests last May.  She has piled on terrorism charges, demanded excessive bail, and then left them in terrible conditions in Cook County Jail for nine months, to coerce them into pleading guilty.
In addition, Barry Jonas was the prosecutor in the case of the Holy Land Five, in which leaders of a Muslim charity were convicted of providing material aid to terrorism, and sentenced to many decades in prison based on the secret testimony of an agent of the Israeli state.

John Marshall Law School shouldn’t honor bullies like Fitzgerald, Ortiz, Alvarez or Jonas.

Call in day: 

Call Dean John Corkery, 312.987.2352 this Friday, January 18


Tell him not to honor Pat Fitzgerald

Sponsors:  Committee Against Political Repression, Coalition to Protect People’s Rights, US Palestinian Community Network

Comment by Joe Balkis on December 21, 2012 at 6:41
 
CSFR Updates and News—Happy Holidays Edition Happy Holidays to the members, friends and supporters of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression! We have important actions for you to take. Once again, you can make a difference in the lives and holiday celebrations of anti-war and international solidarity activists and their families. We also ask that you donate directly to our work this holiday season: Click here to donate! Freedom is not free, but donations are tax deductible before the New Year!
Also, please sign the petition and place a phone call for Dr. Hamoodi TODAY (see number 6 below), and bring him home for the holidays!
Comment by Joe Balkis on December 12, 2012 at 6:35
TOMORROW - Wednesday 12/12/12 9AM to 5PM
International Call-In Day to Support Addameer and All Palestinian NGOs from Attacks by the IDF

At 3AM this morning (12/11/12), Addameer and other Palestinian human rights groups were attacked and their material stolen and destroyed by the IDF occupation forces. “The occupation’s goal in raiding the offices of Addameer and other organizations is to delegitimize them and strip them of their legal status in preparation for closing them and attacking their personnel,” Addameer said in Arabic from its Twitter account today.
Addameer has been defending Palestinian political prisoners for twenty years. The IDF attack on Addameer strikes at the heart of the rule of law and challenges all Palestinian activists to defend those who defend Palestinian political prisoners.
We call on all Palestinian activists world-wide to contact their government representatives and
Demand an end to attacks on Addameer and all Palestinian human rights organizations and NGOs!
Demand the return of all confiscated materials to Addameer and all the Palestinian NGOs raided!
For activists in the U.S.
- Call the White House at 1-202-456-1111 - Call the State Department at 1-202-647-4000
Sponsored by (list in formation):
Palestine Solidarity Group - Chicago USPCN - Chicago
 

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